The Advancement of Learning

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Francis Bacon's The Advancement of Learning (1605) is considered the first major philosophical book written in English. In it, Bacon is concerned with scientific learning: the current state of knowledge, obstacles to its progress, and his own plans for revitalization of schools and universities. Here Bacon sets forth the first account of science as intended for qthe relief of man's estate.q With this newly designed and reset edition, this important work is again available in paperback. Difficult and fundamental, The Advancement of Learning helps define the modern era. qThis extraordinary genius, when it was impossible to write a history of what men already knew, wrote one of that which they had to learn.q aDiderot qBacon was the first to address the issues that have again become so pressing in our time: Why should we pursue scientific progress? What are the implications of modern science for religion and morality? Does technology enhance or disfigure the human soul? . . . It is therefore hard to imagine a book more attuned to our times.q afrom the new Introduction by Jerry WeinbergerAnd surely, when I set before me the condition of these times, in which learning
hath made her third visitation or circuit in all the qualities ... communicateth books
to men of all fortunes; the openness of the world by navigation, which hath
disclosed multitudes of experiments, and a ... of them, they shall make that
ancient and patient re- quest, Verbera, sed audi;423 let men reprehend them, so
they observeanbsp;...

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The Advancement of Learning

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Francis Bacon

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Paul Dry Books - 2001-03-01

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